I’m a Dutch-Turkish visual artist based in Amsterdam. I graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2024, with a focus on moving image, and I  currently work as a copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy.

My work explores themes of identity, self-reflection and human connection through experimental documentaries, writing, sound, and sometimes ceramic sculptures.
My work is not about persuasion, but observation, of what people seek, what they long for, what they cannot yet articulate. I move between the polished and the performed, looking for what remains alive.

By making my own ambivalence visible, I try to create a space where something shared might emerge - not certainty, but  recognition.
                              
          For full length documentations or CV contact 

     mirayvanderbend@hotmail.com                                                  


2020 - 2024 Gerrit Rietveld academie, BA Moving Image

2022 Exchange program School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Sound & Moving
image

2019 - 2020 Gerrit Rietveld academie, Pre-course

2018 - 2019 Reinwardt Academie, Cultural Heritage

2014 - 2018 Cibap, BA Spatial Design
 
 

2025 - VOV - Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam, NL

2025 - BilBoe - opening, Amsterdam, NL

2025 - Anadolu University - Eskisehir, Turkey
     
2024 - Graduation Show Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

2023 - The Latent Space, Chicago, USA

2022 - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Oceanic Imaginaires, NL

2022 - NeverNeverland, Amsterdam, NL
       
2019 - Anne Frank house, Museumnacht, Amsterdam, NL